Ahriman and colleagues close the chaos gate as described in last session ebfore heading home to catch some badly needed sleep.
Zhaunil and Zarathustriel go shopping, escorted by GhulDril and Azazel Suddenly odd happenings start to occur as people find themselves incapable of communicating. Soon this is escalated to the point where persons and surroundnings start to morph and mutate!
This seems to be a city-wide phenomenom and magic alarms are set off all over the place.
After some hard work, the shopping-party manages to make for home in some confusion.
Zhe'raen over in his part of town also realize something is amiss and sets out to demand an explanation from Ahriman who has been appointed Generic Guilty Guy by all who know him.
Soon enough Ahriman is pulled out of his bed and is confronted by upset relatives. A brief examination shows that the city is being invaded by a host of lesser Demonic entities (and a few big ones). Zarathustriel asks Ahriman to look in a mirror using his Second Sight. Said and done. Then Ahriman teleports to the nearest shower cleansing himself both physically and magically (for no reason readily apparent to anyone else) before setting about to release a massive grid of Order across town to close the myriad tiny dimensional portals that leak in raw chaos-stuff into the city.
He is tasked by everyone to find the one behind this event and he asks Zarathustriel to help him out. Her being considered insane (or "inspired" as GhulDril puts it) should be a help when it comes to find a Demonologist. She readily agrees to this and sets out to do just that. Somewhat surprised Ahriman is happy to, finally, be able to go to bed, leaving it in the capable hands of his oldest sister.
Zarathustriel asks Zhe'raen to come along and to his surprise she seems to act on a whim and sets out to the tunnels outside town. Since the enemy exists he must be somewhere. Since he can be anywhere, beginning by looking just about anywhere at all is a good start according to Zarathustriel's thinking. Apparently it works for they soon encounter a scruffy-looking Human Wizard in colorful clothes. He happily confesses that he is the one behind the recent attack and claims to be iterested in destroying the city for reasons that are somewhat hard to understand.
The Wizard agress to come along and being a carefree type seems to worry little about his imminent doom. Poor Ahriman has barely gotten a few hours worth of sleep when the visiting Wizard sets off all manner of magic alarms. After some initial talking a short but destructive battle of sopells and blades takes place. GhulDril manages to cushion Zhe'raen's fall by getting Zhe'raen on top of him. GhulDril is then carted off to be healed... Since there was some structural damage done during the fight Ahriman fixes it hurriedly before locking hinmself up in a depsterate attempt to get some more sleep, this time with some success.
Zhaunil presents WeaponsmasterIoria with a gift: A permanent matrial exhibit of her own. Ioria is confused by the gift at first but soon shows her appreciation for it.
MatronNemalzhi is slightly worried about this friendship of Zhaunil's and sets GhulDril to investigate the nature of it, lest Zhaunil would get in some sort of trouble that could be harmfull to her House.